[-empyre-] Response to Marc: Parasite, the In-Between, and Relationality

[naxsmash]

I wonder too if parasite

could also mean para-'site'

well i could go on!




c



ps  para -site could be , subjunctive? as if.............

" It is a bit like old times in those high school nights, when “  
everybody knows” or better, what if “if everybody were to know” that  
there is some girl who is always getting fucked, night after night,  
behind the bleachers at the school football game.  Then what?  She is  
there but we really can’t, or won’t see her; she gazes at us in a  
dematerialized pathos without a story to tell because we are not  
present to her, to hear her; she is just some girl.  I noticed the  
breathing action by the girl in my video was not ‘me’.  She was  
submerged or hidden in the pixels. Violent memory I had released into  
a cyber spatial transaction, but the memoire of that memory was there  
and not there.  Like the raped girl I could not ‘see’ myself or ‘hear  
myself’ in the performance work. .. "  http://www.christinamcphee.net/writings/anarchitecture_naxsmash_project.html



incidentally speaking of all this I later found a great essay about  
inscription (from the 'outside" "in"  "Nietzsche and the Choreography  
of Knowledge," where Elizabeth Grosz is in top form.  IN her "Volatile  
Bodies"

(1994).


naxsmash
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christina mcphee

http://christinamcphee.net
http://naxsmash.net





On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Robert Summers wrote:

> Michel Serres states, *my book is rigorously fuzzy* ( _The Parasite_,
> 56).  I deployed the term *parasite* in the way Serres does and does
> not.  He writes, *parasitism is an elementary relation; it is ... the
> elements of the relation* (182).  I want to think about *elementary
> relations* and *elements of the relation.*  Also, I have been thinking
> of *queer theory* back to the rise of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and I
> want to think *queer theory* back to a kind of virus, as a kind-of
> virology.  But, then, I find the concept of the *parasite* interesting
> in relation to *queer theory* and this would lead me back to *queer
> relationality* -- which, in this online discussion, I am merely
> thinking aloud to help me think things through.  I am not at all
> interested in writing on emypre what I already have down as a solid
> answer: that would not be any fun.  So, somewhat *against* Serres who
> states, *I don’t want to play any more. Neither at the game of who is
> smarter nor that of the truth. For you can die of hunger, of cold, of
> drowning, while playing* -- I am very much for playing, which I will
> not qualify as either serious or unserious.
> So, Serres, *the parasite,* queer relational, and play.  I am
> somewhere in-between; thinking in the middle and relationally.  I
> think we can think *parasitically* -- which is to say, to not think in
> a binary way, which you, Marc, critique, and I agree.  I think the
> idea of the *parasite* can lead us to a discussion of *middles* or
> *in-betweens.*  (Is this a *queer* space?)  This is what I am
> attempting to think: not either/or, but rather */* ... I do not know
> if this offers a clear answer, but the *parasite* is not about
> clarity, but it is about relationality.
>
>
> Robert Summers, PhD/ABD
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